::with Russian voice:: Comrades, we are almost winning too much. Almost. While we recruit Comrade Kanye West to our mission, American narrative engineers pinned remaining hopes on Comrade Trump 2013 visit to mother Moscow; and with visit to beautiful city for beautiful women of Universe pageant.

But seriously, if anyone paid attention to the latest hopes of the #Resistance, their cause du jour circled around discovering proof for the vast Russian conspiracy/collusion narrative through Bloomberg purchasing flight logs to determine validity to Clinton-Steele Dossier. [More on that below] The effort is so pathetic it would be laughable if Trump Derangement Syndrome wasn’t actually a real thing.

While the Moonbats are chasing red flight dots… the Trump administration leveraged Rand Paul to bend the knee on confirming Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State; and the larger Senate ‘Resist-We-Much’ movement collapsed along with him… Even Corker (insert loud Russian laughter here).

Meanwhile, POTUS Trump sends DAG Rod Rosenstein a magnificent set of Presidential Cufflinks for his first ever appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court. Apparently, comrade Rosenstein’s fears of dismissal were greatly exaggerated by American Pravda, or something…. No, seriously, Mr. Rosenstein is a happy camper and the deconstruction of the professional political deep state continues unabated. Moar, winning.

… And if that’s not enough to drive the Moonbats to absurd levels of visible nuttery….

French President Emmanuel Macron and Bridget Macron arrive for a wonderful State Visit with President Trump and First-Lady Melania Trump and things are going swimmingly… Yes, France on team Trump. Liberals are going bananas.

President Macron brings with him a gift, offering to President Donald Trump and the American people an oak sapling taken from Bellau Wood, about 60 miles northeast of Paris in the Champagne region. The site is where a famous World War One battle took place, where the U.S. Marine Corps repelled a German offensive in the final year of the conflict almost exactly a century ago.

The sapling grew close to the so-called “Devil Dog” fountain, a spot that has become legendary within Marines ranks. It is where U.S. soldiers are said to have gathered after the battle. The “dog” in the fountain’s name refers to its spout, which resembles the head of a bull mastiff. But the nickname also stems from the German moniker “Teufelhunden”, or “devil dogs”. That term is said to have been used by the Germans to describe the U.S. Marines due to the ferocity with which the Americans fought.

As a consequence, “Devil Dog” soon became a common nickname for U.S. Marines. President Trump and President Macron planted the sapling on the South Lawn just prior to departing for dinner at Mount Vernon with Melania and Bridget.

Cool stuff.

MOMENTS AGO The Trump's and Macron's boarded MARINE ONE for 20 minute trip to George Washington's Mount Vernon estate where they will visit Washington's tomb and dine in the mansion. pic.twitter.com/z3rI4rsAlK

Comrades, we haz success. Apex cognitive dissonance has been achieved. 🤦‍♂️ The time travel continuum has been folded upon itself…. thereby attaining maximum contortions to retain TDS. Jounalising is hard. pic.twitter.com/AGXAoMtGJ8

About the Presidential cufflinks presented to Rosenstein by Trump and pictured by Sundance just a day before Rosenstein argues at SCOTUS on behalf of the US— a HUGE gesture by Trump. IMO, this gesture changes the landscape bigly. Explained perhaps poorly but definitely emotionally by way of a very personal lurking lawyer story previously known only to my direct family.

In the late 1990’s, I got recruited as a very senior Motorola exec to speak to ‘continuing legal education’ sessions of the ABA Appellate bar subgroup—basically State supremes plus federal Appellate judges. A great honor (and as if they needed continuing legal education—ah, bureaucracy). I tried but failed to get MOT’s general counsel to join me. He chickened out. I was challenging these very senior judges about future technical legal things like venue and jurisdiction in the cell phone/internet era that was coming—a contemporary example is whether Amazon must collect state sales taxes, just argued at Scotus last Friday. Apparently I was a hit despite offering only provacative questions about the probable future, not any legal answers.

So, after the several ABA CLE sessions where I was an ‘educator’, the Appellate Judiciary ABA section held a celebratory dinner in the Great Hall of the SCOTUS building in DC. The Great Hall is the columned corridor just outside the SCOTUS hearing chamber. Dinner catered by the same Navy cooks that serve the WH state dinners (so we were told.)

The ABA SCOTUS Great Hall dinner host was Supreme Justice Clarence Thomas, whom I had previously met twice coincidentally on airplanes as a seatmate, and also once on business while he was then EEOC head. Imagine my shock when after dessert he called on me by name to come forward, and then presented me with a set of 18 carat gold SCOTUS cufflinks—in the Great Hall, surrounded by State Supremes and Federal Appellate Justices. The honor of my life.
I just went and held them again in remembrance before posting this very personal note to total strangers but also fellow travellers at CTH. Good things are coming. Trump’s cuff link gift to Rosenstein seals the deal for those now in the know. What a significant gesture!!!

Well, just the other day you were questioning DAG Rod Rosenstein and AG Jefferson Sessions temperament and quality of progression within the judicial system and their workings of the DOJ.
Is this a ‘mea culpa’ or just a grandiosity spectacle comment…

MW, don’t think your assertions about my past here expressed views are correct. For one thing, I have seldom (to quote Gilbert and Sullivan, Almost Never) expressed any personal views here, just have pointed to background law stuff to further a grounded conversation. So, provide links or slink away.
In the colloquial, put up or shut up.

It will take me some time. But, is it necessary.?
I can go back to comments you made pertaining to Rosenstein and Sessions ability to process and perform the rule of law. You say, “seldom expressed personal views here, just have pointed to background” that alone is a summation of your choice to their actions and thought of your interpretation of law, that you “ALMOST NEVER” do.

I’m not saying you’re a bad dude and think it rather cool that you had a moment in life you are extraordinarily proud of and wish to share. But, the legalese speak is not hard for most Treepers to work around.

Either you’re in on you’re out on MAGA and PDJT’s agenda. ‘ristvan’ has made statements of deceptive fence riding and I called him on it. Oh well, and I simply asked if it was a ‘mea culpa’ moment or a ‘look at me’ grandiosity.
I bet – you Brickman, nor ristvan can name the case that Rosenstein is arguing before the Supreme Court – why is that you are both limited in that knowledge.? Why is it that ‘ristvan’ does not acknowledge the reason for Rosenstein being presented Cuff Links from the President…
So, Brickman45 you should hang on to your beer and drink it.

Do you even know the case in which Rosenstein is arguing before the Supreme Court? And the background, of said case.? This is not a “Caesar vs Brutus” moment. This is Rosenstein arguing the inability of reduction or changing of sentences of criminals. A case RR has been working on and PDJT is giving him prayers (cuff links) of confidence.

When I first read about the cuff links, I thought it was a going away gift to Rosie. He’s going to do the SCOTUS thing and then ride off into the sunset of his own volition. Well, it would look like that but more likely PT told Rosie that he should take one of those offers to work at a big time law firm and bow out of the DAG gracefully. Maybe Herr Mueller’s firm is hiring? 😄

BestBets
I am very interested in the WHY of Rosie’s hiatus from the seat of power (DAG) while Sessions seems to be in the federal witness protection program. (although I was defending Sessions from other hardcore bashers before I started visiting here). I speculated (and still do) that Jeff is busy cooking up a 5 course dinner of whoop ass and many of us are waiting for the dinner bell to ring. From what worthwhile info I extract from the media buzz and from this site, I am still hoping that is the explanation for such seemingly uncharacteristic behavior on the part of Sessions and his appearance of “inaction”.
Anyway, I have been a vocal critic of Rosie, referring to him as a “co-conspiring rodent” with the seditious TRAITORS in DOJ/FBI/FISC/”intelligence agencies”
I REALLY want to know what the meaning behind this move of Rosenstein to this SCOTUS case is-really is.

Late return. Rosenstein himself said he wanted to continue the feel of practicing law, not just administrating. He was the longest serving US District Attorney before Trump appointed him as AAG. He asked for this case (normally the Solicitor General would argue) as soon as it was scheduled by SCOTUS. Almost a year ago. Highly technical appellate circuit split on reduced sentancing guidelines and fed district judge need to explain their decisions. Actual case is a meth dealer who fell under the new congressional reduced sentancing guidelines but did not get a full reduction and judge did not in writing explain why.
None of that is relevant to POTUS giving him POTUS cufflinks to wear during his first (and maybe only) ever SCOTUS oral on behalf of the USA. Trump’s gesture to RR is just overwhelmingly enormous to me, as I tried to explain. To show how much this meant to RR, his wife and two daughters attended the oral argument and then they posed for a family portrait on the SCOTUS entry steps afterwards. Google will quickly find the picture. That is the hallmark of an honest craftsman (after all, lawyering is, as Lincoln observed, just another craft trade).

ristvan – will never answer that, he is a lawyer – a lurking lawyer – does that tell you what you want to know.? If – IF – he has the wherewithal to answer it will be in legalese speak as he does when he comments. Never a definitive answer of Yea or Nay, always the depends…….

Certainly ‘ristvan’ is not required to do anything, nor are you Newt Love. Yet, as is posted… Payday asks “Is RR a white hat” – and we still await ‘ristvan’ answer… Showing it is not a petty response, it is a truthful response.
The truthful response was – you ain’t getting one… as of now – time it.

Thank you for walking in your own footsteps, and not rejecting destiny like “MOT’s general counsel” who shirked the opportunity.

To paraphrase The Bible:
Count it a great thing to be called in to give testimony to the great leaders of your time. Give them honest answers and wise council, and in everything you do, be a witness to the great hope that lies in you.

Clarence Thomas and others honored you for being worthy of the footsteps in which you trod: your destiny.

The highest compliment that we Lakota people have is “You are a True Human Being.” By that we mean, given the situations in your life, you chose honor, and did the best you could.

Lovely and inspiring story. Ristvan, I search for your posts – you are an island of sanity on Treehouse.
I have faith in RR’s integrity, I believe he is trying valiantly to follow the Rules of Professional Responsibility (one of my least favorite courses) while serving all Americans. He belongs on the list of unsung heros, with Rodgers, Preistep, Huber and Nunes. IMHO, of course.

Ristvan,
What an amazing experience to share with all of us here, and I am thankful you did. I love hearing personal stories that relate or have a link to what is going on. I cannot imagine the happiness it brings you when you put them on for special occasions, and it must be pretty humbling to know that so many greats stood before you and with you in receiving this high honor.

I hope you will take the time to write all of your memories down of this historical weekend and to pass it on with the cuff-links after you cross over. The next person to wear them in your honor will know and understand the history and what it meant to you. I cannot imagine anything better than that.
Be well, and congratulations!
Ma’iingankwe

Wow! Just wow! Amazing honor! I think of all the current SCOTUS Justices I’d like to have a beer with, CT tops the list. He weathered such a shiite storm for throwing off Demonrat/perpetual victim chains and being true to the Constitution and laws of this nation and to his own honor!

It was the eclipse.. And we are now entering deeper into the flux of the main gravitational field in this exceptional round of cyclic planetary alignment ecliptical territory.. deep flux TDS territory..

Here is what I heard the other day: We need to address STREAM. STEM has been updated. It was updated to STEAM: A for Arts. Now, they have added R for Riting. I am not making this up. I was in a press-release meeting, and this was mentioned at question time.

STEM was the last area where logic was taught. You need to think logically to fix a boiler and not blow up a plant. Now even STEM has been corrupted by the liberals in “education.” We will be living in a third world country once the current crop of engineers die off.

But Hillary said, “Math is hard.” With that alone she probably scared away a bunch of potential engineers.
Did Cankles ever get anywhere near a science building? Doubt it. I have a business degree, but I also got a B in organic Chem (all the A’s go to the pre-med bunch),

Bloomberg will claim that the ticket was purchased for an alias.
That would require a PASSPORT in the alias’ name.
Bloomberg screams “Conspiracy!”

Next we will hear that PDJT had his State Department fabricate false passports for Cohen and Manafort, and then send them back in time (via Einstein Express [When it absolutely has to be there last week (or two years ago)] to Cohen and Manafort, for them to use to make the Russian and Ukraine trips when they (allegedly) did, but there is no record of it.

The (D) Party Donkeys will believe it.
The rest of America? Not so much!

I call Bloomberg Mr. Butthurt Big! The guy is probably one of the biggest hypocrites on the planet! He is anti gun yet he spends a fortune on his personal armed security detail. Really pathetic! It just goes to show how elites like him are so out of touch with the rest of the world!

Let’s look at the positive aspects of the Bloomberg embarrassingly stupid article. They paid for the arrival/departure data, thus helping the data-storage company make a few bucks. Bunch of idiots (Bloomberg minions and fake news journOlists in general).

I’m thinking that it’s so much easier today to figure things like time differences, because there is this thing called a “computer”, and it will compute things for you.
In the olden days, you had to have the proper reference handy, and sometimes you had to calculate, or as Jethro used to say, cipher the difference yourself.
How is it that people who have grown up with these machines do not understand these things?
BTW, I don’t know whose idea it was for Macron to bring that tree, but kudos to that person and kudos to the Macrons for their gift to America.
It brings tears to my eyes.
Notice how careful President Trump got when handling dirt.

The Berlin Wall of the East is crumbling, the War that never ended is soon to be over between North and South. Saudi Arabia and Israel are now great friends. China wants no part in any trade war, and NAFTA will soon be terminated – giving Republicans a huge boost heading in to the midterms. Killing NAFTA will be the biggest reason why Trump voters go out and vote this November.

I forgot to mention the ultimate exposure of the biggest political scandal in American history.

Wait, what. Did Trump just try to BRIBE Rosenstein with those cufflinks? Isn’t that, like, some kind of FELONY or at least a violation of a hundreds year old Act that prohibits a President from doing stuff?!?

If the Bombardier flew non-stop, and its advertised range indicates that it can indeed make that trip non-stop, then Trump might have landed in Moscow around 2:15pm Nov 8. Let’s say he arrived at the hotel at 3:15pm. Bloomberg says that evening he dined at Nobu and attended a birthday party. The next day, Saturday Nov 10, he was busy all day with pageant activities. The pageant after party began at 1am Sunday Nov 11. A guest at the party told The Guardian that Trump was still there at 2am. The jet Trump used departed Moscow at 3:58am.

So Trump probably did stay overnight in Moscow the night of Friday Nov 9 but it doesn’t mean he slept there. He probably slept during the flight to Moscow and for that reason and the 7 hour time difference wouldn’t have wanted to sleep during Moscow’s night., His entire Saturday was full of events, he might very well have been preparing for those events.

As usual, Democrats grasping at straws.

But this is why Trump should refuse to talk to Mueller. It’s too easy to get tripped up on times and dates on international trips. And seeing how the Dems are all foaming at the mouth right now because it looks like Trump really did spend a night in Moscow, well, any discrepancy under oath is sure to cause them some serious splodey heads. 🙂

Dixie,
I don’t know why people rag on CTH or AdRem for these occurrences…its been explained many times how it is WP which kicks our stuff out.
Your example of a certain word is one it took me a while to figure out, but it can be done.
In the case of that one reference, AdRem explained the issue, which was The Clue.

It’s dumb that Bloomberg is so obsessed that they would look into the flight logs but on the other hand, we could have nipped this dossier allegation in the bud last year if someone has investigated the timeline.

Bloomberg, CNBC and CNN Business are still miffed at the fact they were actually out of synch with their news counterparts during the elections for 3-4 months, actually supporting Trump’s positions about growth vs continuation of Obama’s disastrous policy, although they still did not like Trump. Then in October, somebody pulled their chain and they went full bore predicting disaster if Trump won….they were wrong again. They never miss a chance to spin positive to bad, ignore good if no spin is possible and report all negative news possible.

Bloomberg, CNN and NBC are the axis of media evil, in news and business reporting.

The time zone confusion is funny. And it’s sad that Bloomberg couldn’t do a little more work to figure things out (at this point, I’m not clear on the time zones at all.)

All that said, if the plane took off landed in left US THU night and left Russia SUN early morning, Trump would still have been in Russia the entire night of FRI/SAT. And probably about a 36 hour stay in country.

I don’t think this is some evil gotcha. I think he was speculating and not even clear on the timing (I don’t remember but my people think I wasn’t there over night). And it is not some deposition or official statement.

The pissing on the bed always struck me as over the top silly. There was an even funnier part where supposedly Trump names his poops Obama. Stuff like that sounds like 4chan trolls. It’s not even a good lie. I still think in the end we will find out that some of this stuff was just a joke gone wrong.

The objective is to plant the malicious seed which they have succeeded in doing, yet again. The truth doesn’t matter and correcting it post publication is meaningless. Liberal airheads will consume and savor every morsel of what they want to believe and remain ignorant.

Not many people know this, but in my adopted home town of Annapolis, MD, on the grounds of St John’s College (the 3rd oldest college in America), back by their boathouse where the “Johnnies” store their skulls and rowing craft, there is a monument to the French who fought with us against King George in the American Revolutionary war.

This excerpt is from one of the articles on the topic:
“… About 3,000 French troops marched into Annapolis on Sept. 18, 1781, most on their way to a decisive victory against the British at Yorktown, Va. But some died – probably from disease – and they were buried at the edge of what are now the St. John’s playing fields.”http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2005-10-30/news/0510290408_1_french-troops-revolutionary-war-french-soldiers
I have been to that sacred spot 4 times, to pay respects to those who gave their lives in the pursuit / defense of Freedom.

Yeah, that’s the ticket! I wasn’t one of them, but I heard the word, and spelled it incorrectly.

Annonymous posted some more:
> “… rowed for a little while at the “other strange school in Annapolis…”

That would make you a USNA grad. Sir, I’m honored.

I’m a former Enlisted Marine, but one of my closest friends is USNA class of 1979. (The now,) Dr. Leo Jones and I, along with our buddy, Steve Stegmann, wrote over 20 papers for IEEE and other Tech Pubs, and Dr Jones and I have co-chaired International IEEE Conferences in Tel Aviv.

Good to know you, sir, but I would never ask you to reveal your true personage.

I know. I’m crazy, being on the Internet as my real name, but how else can I hope to get anyone to read my mystery / thriller novels? NewtLove.com anyone?

I went to a Maritime Academy many many many years ago , where we had a crew team which I had never heard of before, coming from a coastal surf town myself.
I always thought they called their boats “Shells”.
Am I remembering correctly?
I was not one of the Chosen Few but there were plenty good guys on those teams.
Lot of Ego, lots of tough dedication. Lots of Hard training early in the mornings
On a side note, when we first got on the training ship as 4th class,
I learned that the word scullery was the little room where we dumped the food scraps to the ocean, and washed the dishes.
Am I remembering this right? Old Navy term?

The French actually fought for and with us in the American Revolution.

Americans have also given their lives on French soil defending them.

I really do not think we have had better or more consistent allies over the decades than the French people. Also, do not forget that green lady sitting on Ellis Island given from the French people to the American people.

I was very glad to see the menu for tonight and see that the event is dedicated to His Excellency Emmanuel Macron and his beautiful wife.

How long has it been since we have had this much class in White House–maybe since the Kennedys?

Need to know the time zone being used for the arrival in Moscow. Trip calculator has the travel time Ashville/NYC to Moscow at 9-10 hours. If the 6:15 AM arrival time is EST, then it would have been a 9 hour flight.

Sundance, you are brilliant and hilarious. Thank you so much, God bless you for all you do. May you go down in history as a great Patriot along with the likes of Paul Revere, Thomas Paine, and Sam Adams.

during college football recruiting season, fans of various schools scour flight logs to try and determine where coaches are heading in the lead up to National Signing day. you see stuff like ‘flight just left Tuscaloosa Airport at 7 a.m Registered to University of Alabama. Saban didn’t show for his tee-time at North River Resort. Plane headed for Miami International Airport, Miami is home of national top 5 linebacker Jimmy John Studmuffin!!!!!! Me thinks we got him!”

This Bloomberg junk reminds me of this….. bunch of obsessed leftists in the news media resorting to this type of behavior. They’re lunatic hacks.

I know! Plus, the headline story on Google for the last 2days has been various scary headlines about non-crimes by Sean Hannity. “Hannity Gets Home Loans” gasp! “Hannity buys repo houses” gasp! They are so crazed now, really just crazed, that they are getting sloppy and reckless.

My old friend who consults on internet freedom for persecuted groups and journalists (real ones) under repressive regimes uses and strongly recommends using Tor for browsing. I’ve discussed various VPN and DNSCrypt2 stuffs with him and he thinks Tor does it better. Since he’s dealing with situations where people’s lives, possible torture, and freedom are at stake, I’m prone to accept his expertise. https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

Bridget Macron is a very attractive and desirable older woman. I understand the younger man’s attraction to her. He takes a lot of grief regarding their age difference, but if they are happy, I am happy for them.

My sweetie, the love of my life, is 9 years and a few months older than me. When I met her, I was overwhelmed by who she was, and her spiritual state.
I begged G-d to help me get a 2nd date with her.
We’ve now been together for 20 years, and I just turned 60.

If you want to cast asparagus at the age differences of happy couples, then please just S. T. F. U. ! ! ! !

@dallasdan: she was his high school teacher. She took a shine to him when he was 15. She followed him to Paris (got a new teaching job) when his parents sent him there to complete his secondary education.

She divorced her husband for a schoolboy.

Sorry to be brutally honest, but put yourself or a close male friend in her husband’s shoes. What would you think if you or he had been c***holded by a teenager?

Wake up, people. This relationship wasn’t made when both were adults. He was a boy. She was a wife and a mother.

All that energy obsessing over irrelevant arrival and departure times, when it is known from public records and Tweets that Trump flew to Russia, attended the pageant, and then returned home to the US in one very loooong day.

If we grant Comey accurately portrayed the discussion- a big if- the details uncovered by Bloomberg don’t amount to much- the plane left Asheville at 10 p.m. Thursday, arrived at around 1:30 p.m. Friday Moscow time. I have done these trans-Atlantic flights myself, leaving the evening from the East Coast and arriving in Europe around midday local time. The problem here is that most people can’t sleep well in flight- I never slept even though the departure was near my normal bedtime. It is a struggle to stay awake long enough after the arrival. I imagine that Trump probably just went to the hotel and slept until any festivities for that night (Friday), and probably never slept again during the trip. Once you take that long sleep from early afternoon til, let’s say 8:00 p.m., you can’t just go back to the hotel and go to sleep at midnight local time. Every time I made that trip, I was up all night that first night, but in Trump’s case, his schedule for that Saturday didn’t allow another afternoon sleep, and he just did without it. I doubt Trump even remembers that Friday afternoon in Moscow 4 years later, or he remembers it as arriving in Moscow, sleeping several hours and then attending to all festivities that Friday night til Saturday night in one long fucking day.

My point is that these sorts of flights west to east to Europe leave you arriving midday local time having had no worthwhile sleep at all during the overnight. If you can, you just go to the hotel and sleep for 8 to 9 hours during the day, but then you are up all night. The real question is what was Trump doing during that period from about 8:00 p.m. Moscow time that Friday until the morning of Saturday. If I had to guess, he was probably attending parties and meetings associated with the pageant pretty much that entire time- I am guessing he was awake the entire time from that Friday evening until he departed from the airport. Trump probably doesn’t even consider that long nap immediately after the arrival as “staying overnight”. I am guessing if pressed, he could probably find the people to account for his every waking moment in Moscow because I doubt he was ever alone from that Friday evening until he got back on the plane.